Hi there,
I joined SVS just a little over a year ago when I came across Will's youtube videos, then Jake's and that in turn lead me to 3 point perspective where I was so thrilled to see three working, successful illustrators openly speaking about the hardships and successes, good habits and lessons learned along their career path. I have been in the graphic design field for over 15 years and freelance for over 10 but still find I do not feel confident in my work and couldn't quite figure out why. SVS classes have helped fill in the many things my college education left out, mainly good "story telling" not just how to create a pretty picture of a moment captured. I still have a ways to go but with Lee, Will and Jake's help I feel I have a good team to guide me. Each of their styles is so different yet all so good and it's so refreshing that they are open to answering questions and sharing techniques.(and funny stories) Makes me wish I was younger and starting out my career today but am pleased to find SVS even if I am a bit late to the game.

I've watched this on replay. Congrats to both of you, wonderful pieces of work for what looked to be a very tough brief. Nailed it!

@austinshurtliff yes, I received an email from you on Feb. 28 at 4:05 pm. Thank you!!

Hi all! Critique Arena will be getting started soon! As always, if you didn't get a link, shoot me an email!

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Preview the top 16 HERE and get ready to vote tomorrow!

The prompt for February was: The garage was trashed, but Riley made something to be proud of.

Who will it be? Who will win? Tune in tomorrow at 2:00 pm (MT) to cast your votes and learn from Jake Parker, Will Terry and Lee White as they critique these amazing illustrations.

Well done, @chrisaakins.
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Today is the last day to enroll for our upcoming Children's Book Pro class!

Everyone who enrolls now will have a built-in peer group to work with over the next 10 weeks.

With everyone starting at the same time, you'll be able to connect with fellow classmates as new content is released each week. You'll also be able to join our weekly Zoom sessions if you have questions.

Once the class is wrapped up, you'll be able to continue working at your own pace, since you'll own the class. It's a win-win!

THE DETAILS

Class: Children's Book Pro

Instructors: Will Terry, Jake Parker and Lee White

Class Start Date: Feb 28

Class End Date: May 5

New Content Release: Tuesdays (it may vary depending on your time zone)

Weekly Zoom Sessions: Thursdays, alternating between at 10am PST and 7pm PST. If you need help converting time zones, check out this handy website!

Duration: 10 weeks if you follow the weekly schedule, but you can also do it at your own pace.

Cost: $597

ENROLL NOW

@emilyenghart This is amazing to watch clips!

Hi all! If you have questions about our upcoming Children's Book Pro class, join our livestream tonight!

Will, Jake and Lee will be fielding questions live on our Youtube channel. If you can't make it, drop your questions here and we will get them to the guys😁

The livestream is at 7 pm MST (click here for other time zones).

Here's the link to join!

@lisaf are you going to create the page for February?

@AustinShurtliff Great to put a face to name! Thanks for all you do for SVS to make it a great place for us students.

@von_nimmermehr I emailed you a link!

Just FYI, Squarespace seems to be experiencing some connectivity issues, which may affect svslearn.com and critiquearena.com. Thanks for your patience!

https://status.squarespace.com/

@jdubz congrats!!!! It's been wonderful seeing you grow as a student here 😊😊😊😊

If you are getting an error message when you try to access the forum, try clearing your cache.

@david I too am a birder and just started posting photos to an Instagram account last summer at ljdemott I’m going to follow you and @lizardillo — you have some great shots and I love seeing the birds from a different part of the world. Mine are a lot of eastern bluebirds which I’m a bit fanatic about.

@jeremy-ross there been some influence lol

Sorry about that! A setting was changed in our email system that messed up the links. We resent a couple different emails, try the one from Society of Visual Storytelling, not SVSLearn 😅

Just a reminder that today is the Critique Arena All Stars edition!

For our last competition of the year, we invited all the previous winners from 2021 to throw down in an all star battle royale ⚔️ Who will be the last one standing??

We'll get started at 2PM MST (check here for other time zones). Be sure to join and cast your votes for the winner of 2021!